Reborn and become a Great Scientist

Chapter 320 59 History has gone awry

In the eyes of little Marcus with confusion, Chen Muwu, just as he had just introduced the design invention of the seat belt ratchet, told him that he had a secret conversation with the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Italy, Mo Mou, in the Palazzo Venezia, the official residence of the Prime Minister in Rome, the capital of Italy. He also told the whole story to the other party.

Although in Rome, a preliminary cooperation intention was reached with the Italian side, and both parties also agreed to sign a legally binding contract to bind each other to prevent the rights and interests of either party from being harmed.

But whether it was a verbal agreement or it was implemented on paper, Chen Muwu still felt that this matter was a bit unreliable.

Because the other party is a well-known rogue country, and it may fall out one day. After finding the oil deposits and finally successfully drilling a well to start large-scale mining, Chen Muwu, the well-finder, will be kicked away and he will live alone.

Especially since this place contains rich oil reserves and is within Italy's North African colony, they will do whatever they want.

Chen Muwu was not afraid that he would work hard from beginning to end and not even get [-]% of the profits as dividends.

Although the money that can be accounted for every year is a huge sum of money, it is dispensable to Chen Muwu. It is not life-saving money in times of need, but just the icing on the cake.

What he is really afraid of is that the Italian side will not honor its agreement, which is the quota for his workers who enter Italian factories every year to intern and learn skills.

Even if these workers could only be sent until the two countries broke off diplomatic relations after the outbreak of World War II, they were very important to Chen Muwu and even to China during the war.

Chen Muwu felt that although he had a very pleasant conversation with the other party in the Prime Minister's Residence at that time, and there was Zhu Zhaoxin, the Chinese Minister to Italy, as a witness, he believed that firstly, Zhu Zhaoxin, who was "guarantor", had no status and no restrictions in the eyes of Italians. Influence, secondly, it is estimated that it will not take long before the Beiyang government completely collapses and the Tingjing side has not yet officially established a foothold, Zhu Zhaoxin will have a breakup with the Beiyang side due to unpaid wages, resign and leave in a rage. Rome, returned to China from Italy and resigned sadly.

Therefore, Chen Muwu's point of view is that he must recruit someone with enough weight to be the witness. At first, he wanted these business friends to introduce a few lawyers to sign a contract with the Italian government.

But after meeting little Marcus today, he thought that instead of doing this, it would be better to directly involve the Wallenberg family.

Although bringing in one more party may better protect his own rights and interests, it will not protect them all. The two opposing parties will join hands to kick him out as an insider.

However, Chen Muwu believes that if it is Marcus Jr. and the Wallenberg family behind him, the probability of this happening is extremely slim.

Not to mention that in addition to the oil in Libya, they also have contacts in various aspects such as education, commerce and industry. Let’s just talk about the face of the Swedish Crown Prince that connects Chen Muwu and Marcus Jr., Wallen. The fort had to give it.

As long as Chen Muwu can maintain a good relationship with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who likes Chinese culture and regards him as the best-connected Chinese person he knows, then the cooperation between him and the Wallenberg family will always be safe. .

Lao Wa's family has a big business, and they simply don't care about the little money that leaks to Chen Muwu from the cracks of their fingers every year. If they only use this small amount of money, they can make friends with Chen Muwu, a world-famous physicist, and still maintain their friendship. The relationship with the current Crown Prince and the future King, this kind of thing that kills two birds with one stone, why not do it?

As for how the Lavalenberg family should distribute their interests with Italy after they enter the game, that is not something Chen Muwu should think about.

His Taoism is not good enough. Foxes like the Wallenberg family who have been around for thousands of years can naturally read their own fairy tales.

Chen Muwu only needs to ensure that his rights and interests are not infringed and can be maintained safely until the outbreak of World War II.

After listening to Chen Muwu's description of the secret agreement on oil exploration that he and the Italian Prime Minister had reached face to face, Marcus still looked in disbelief.

He was not surprised that Chen Muwu could strike up a conversation with Mo. After all, the photo of the two standing side by side shaking hands had already appeared on the front page of Milan's Corriere della Sera and was reprinted in other newspapers in Europe and the United States.

Little Marcus was just surprised by Chen Muwu's calm demeanor when he talked about this matter, as if he would definitely be able to find oil in the Mediterranean, so that the Wallenberg family only needed to feel at ease and prepare for the contract with Italy. Just the tug of war.

Is he really so sure?
Although Northern Europe was the first in Europe to start large-scale navigation, independent countries were not formed there during the Viking Age.

It was not until the end of the era that countries and kings began to appear in Northern Europe, and with the introduction of Christianity, it gradually entered the Middle Ages and became a feudal kingdom.

During the later Age of Discovery, great maritime powers such as Spain and the United Kingdom, as well as Portugal, France, and the Netherlands all opened or occupied many colonies in Africa, America, and Asia. Nordic countries such as Denmark and Sweden also took advantage of this trend. , they were beaten down piecemeal and passed through several places.

But after all, due to some deficiencies in navigation technology, there is no large amount of funds to support the fleet's expenses, nor can it maintain continuous trade to gain any benefits from it.

The several colonies in Sweden's hands were either ceded and lost due to the failure of the war, or sold to other maritime powers, allowing them to be used as a base for ships, and to make a one-time deal of exchanging land for money.

Now, Sweden has no overseas territory, and is not even as good as its beloved and hated Nordic brother Denmark, which still holds Greenland and the Faroe Islands in its hands.

There are no colonies to continuously provide blood transfusions to the country, so there is no influence that can still be retained on the originally colonial areas after the end of World War II and the rise of the world's decolonization wave.

But even in this case, Sweden can still become the spiritual homeland of many people on the Internet because of its high welfare in the 21st century.

The reason why Sweden can maintain high welfare is because it has a large amount of various mineral resources stored in its territory. It only needs to export minerals to earn good income.

During World War II, they were able to remain neutral on the surface without being invaded by either side because of their important iron ore resources.

Germany even sent troops to directly occupy Norway, but spared Sweden, which was sandwiched between Norway and Germany. One of the important reasons was that Sweden could continue to export iron ore to the Germans, and occupying Norway could ensure that Sweden The iron ore produced in the northern mines would have an outlet to the sea, so that the ships carrying the ore would not be harassed by the British navy.

However, although Sweden has a large number of forests and metal mineral deposits, it is very insufficient in reserves of fossil resources.

Not only are they an oil-poor country with very limited oil resources, but they also don’t have many domestic coal deposits.

Whether it is coal for steam engines or crude oil for gasoline and diesel engines, they can only be imported from abroad, which restricted Sweden's further development after the start of the Industrial Revolution.

Swedish industry is in urgent need of oil, and the importance of oil in industry and other fields is growing day by day.

When I first saw the newspaper, the general manager of Royal Dutch Shell told Chen Muwu that he could find a wholesale producer of oil. The Wallenberg family was also skeptical about this.

But seeing Chen Muwu's confident performance today, and his actually saying that the Italian government also agreed to his request for cooperation, little Marcus had to think carefully.He felt that he had gained a lot from coming to the UK to meet with Chen Muwu. He had not only avoided the possible failure of the new Volvo car to enter Sulian hastily, but also found a new direction for this rising car company.

The most critical point is that he also brought back hope to Sweden that it would be able to obtain stable oil resources.

Sweden's industry is basically more or less backed by his family. So if Sweden is short of oil, isn't it because the Wallenberg family is short of oil?

In fact, Chen Muwu had another big killer weapon that he forgot to tell little Marcus. After having crude oil, he would definitely build a refinery and vigorously develop the chemical industry.

In addition to gasoline, kerosene and diesel, petroleum fractionation can also produce various things such as liquefied petroleum gas and liquefied natural gas.

In addition to being used as fuel for kerosene lamps, kerosene can also be put into lighters, such as the famous Zippo.

Liquefied natural gas and liquefied petroleum gas both contain more or less one component, which is CH, butane.

Coincidentally, liquefied butane can also be put into lighters, and the cost of disposable lighters is much cheaper than imported ones like Zhibao. The lighter that Brother Dao bit when he was dead was This kind.

If the Wallenberg family didn't want to wait until the Great Depression a few years later to make their rival Kruger bankrupt and commit suicide, but wanted to directly confront the "Match King", then creating a lighter would be a very good choice. This is the so-called "taking advantage of someone's illness to kill someone".

Little Marcus said goodbye in a hurry and left. He promised Chen Muwu that after returning to Sweden from the UK, he would immediately report Chen Muwu's suggestions to his family. If approved, he would rectify the cars in Gothenburg as soon as possible. Factory, separated Volvo from the SKF Bearing Factory, built a factory specifically to create a separate production line, and focused on a safe luxury car trusted by the royal family.

And if the matter of developing oil is approved, a professional legal team will be dispatched as soon as possible to contact and communicate with Italy and strive to implement the contract as quickly as possible.

Little Marcus was gone, and the United Artists staff member who lived in Cambridgeshire also received a response from the U.S. headquarters from the telegraph office in Cambridge.

Their original intention from the beginning was to hire Chen Muwu as a consultant for the Alien movie so that they could promote the movie and the company in the future.

When I heard that Chen Muwu not only agreed to serve as a consultant for free, but also invited United Artists Film Company to film and record all his work before and after his marriage, United Artists felt that Chen Muwu had given him a great gift.

Even if the wedding is a highly private personal event, the complete copy may not be made public, but as long as Dr. Chen agrees and authorizes them to use several of the clips to edit a featurette, the company can Get a major piece of publicity.

In this way, the matter of United Artists Film Company was completed. Chen Muwu felt that he had finally completed all the things he had accumulated while leaving the Cavendish Laboratory. He could go to the particle accelerator and the theoretical physics group to inspect the work. At that time, his current assistant, Chadwick, came to the door again.

However, Chadwick came this time not to ask Chen Muwu for money, nor to urge him to continue selling the laboratory's leading product, the particle accelerator, but to discuss another matter with him.

——Nomination for the new year’s Nobel Prize in Physics.

Since Chen Muwu won the Nobel Prize in Physics three years ago in 1924, surpassing Prague Jr. and becoming the youngest winner in the history of the Nobel Prize, he has not paid much attention to the Nobel Prize, because he knows that even if he pays attention, It is absolutely impossible to win a second Nobel Prize in Physics or Chemistry in a short period of time.

The winners in 1925 were Blackett's teacher Frank at the University of Göttingen and his collaborator Hertz Jr. The two collaborated on the Frank-Hertz experiment named after their respective surnames.

The winner in 1926 was the Frenchman Perrin. His most famous work was the study of Brownian motion based on Einstein's theory.

During this period, Chen Muwu has never exercised his right to nominate a Nobel Prize winner. He only remembered this matter not long ago, and since then he has begun to consider whether Lu Xun should be nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

During this period, other people in the Cavendish Laboratory have been working tirelessly to nominate candidates, but they have never been able to catch the eye of the members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' review committee.

This time, Chadwick found Chen Muwu and asked him to nominate him because he had made many new discoveries in physics in the laboratory last year.

First, the particle accelerator team under Chen Muwu allowed people to get rid of the pain of bombardment with alpha ions and completed the first artificial intervention in nuclear transmutation in human history.

Second, Appleton, who came out of the Cavendish Laboratory, discovered the difference in signal strength between day and night in Cambridge's BBC broadcast observations from London, thus discovering the ionosphere existing in the sky.

Now people use this technology to achieve radio communication from the UK to Australia.

Regarding Chadwick's proposal, acting director Chen Muwu thought it might be worth giving it a try.

The reason is that these two achievements will win the Nobel Prize in Physics in the future, and the Nobel Prize in 1927 has seriously deviated from the original history because of the emergence of Chen Muwu.

That year's winner will definitely no longer be Compton, director of the Metallurgical Laboratory of the Department of Physics at the University of Chicago. This means that this year's winner is likely to be vacant. Cambridge University is fully capable and has the opportunity to compete.

However, the historical physics prize in 1927 was actually a double-yolked egg, with half given to Compton and the other half given to Wilson, who invented the cloud chamber in the Cavendish Laboratory.

When Compton was doing experiments, he formally used a cloud chamber to detect the trajectory of particles, and Wilson was able to share the prize with him.

But without Compton this time, it is still unknown whether Wilson can still win the award.

After all, in the past two years, physicists from Cambridge and the UK have applied to the Nobel Prize jury for Wilson, but they failed every time.

However, just to be sure and on the safe side, Chen Muwu suggested that Chadwick also apply for Professor Wilson's group.

Although Compton is gone, he is still there, Chen Muwu, right?

Moreover, Blackett discovered nuclear transmutation for the first time, and Zhao Zhongyao and Cockcroft used particle accelerators to detect the products after collisions. They are still inseparable from the cloud chamber.

(End of this chapter)